15 Google+ Sites & Services for Power Users Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. Although it's only been in existence for a month, we've seen a number of Google+-related websites and services spring up across the web. From directories where you can find new Plussers, to sites that will show you the hottest posts and even resources that will help you get more out of the service, we've rounded up 15 fab online destinations. Have a read of our suggestions for third-party Google+ sites below and please share in the comments any other services you've seen that you'd recommend to your fellow Plussers. Additional research by Stephanie Buck
Black hole sucks in 140 trillion times the world's oceans We don't think of the universe as a terribly wet place, but in fact there's water out in space pretty much everywhere you look. A few billion years ago, Mars was awash in the stuff, with rivers scouring twisted channels en route to ancient seas. The solar system from Jupiter outward would be an interplanetary water park if most of the H2O out there weren't frozen. Saturn's rings are made mostly of trillions of chunks of ice. The comets are mostly ice. And it doesn't stop in our solar system. To be precise, the water vapor is mixed with dust and other gases, including carbon monoxide, forming a cloud hundreds of light-years across. Most surprising of all, perhaps, is that finding such an immense reservoir of water lurking in the cosmos just 1.6 billion years or so after the Big Bang makes perfect sense. The scientists are doing something similar with this new discovery — studying the water to infer what's going on in the black hole.
HOW TO: Integrate Google+ into Your WordPress Site Using Google+? Add Mashable to your circles. You'll get the latest about new Google+ features and tips and tricks for using the platform as well as top social media and technology news. This month's hot topic has been, without a doubt, Google+. When it comes to getting found, Google+ is fast becoming a great asset for bloggers and content producers thanks to its ever-expanding user base and simple sharing tools. Display Your Google+ Profile Information Software developer John Henson from PlusDevs has developed a handy, easy to use WordPress widget that displays your Google+ profile on your blog. You can also incorporate the widget into your template with only a few lines of PHP code, giving you the flexibility to place it anywhere within your layout. You can learn more about the widget in the official blog post or jump straight to the code on GitHub. Unofficial Google+ user tracking site SocialStatistics.com also offers an embeddable Google+ widget. Add the +1 Button WP Plus PlusOne Reflex+
Dashboard Elgan: 10 things I hate about Google+ Opinion July 30, 2011 07:00 AM ET Computerworld - I have a love-hate relationship with Google+. As I've mentioned in this space before, I'm on what I call the "Google+ Diet." Despite having well over 20 million users, Google+ is theoretically still a "closed" invitation-only beta service. Until Google works out the kinks in its new social networking service, there are tricks and workarounds for most of the problems you might encounter in Google+. Here are the top 10 things I hate about Google+, and what I do about them. 1. Google+ supports animated GIFs and nice, big pictures. The worst of these is an animated GIF showing a Japanese squid dish. Eventually, I believe Google will add search filters in Google+ like the ones in Gmail. There's so much great content on Google+ that users are tempted to circle everyone they can until reaching the limit of 5,000 people. Of course, you can also just follow narrower circles (such as only "Friends" or "Family" or "People Who Don't Post Squid GIF").
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A Guide to Google+ Privacy and Information Control Can you elaborate? I'm not sure if I understand what you mean. I think What I mean is that I have a hard time seeing how this is going to be any better or any worse in the long run, than any other social network that came before. I spent some time with fb and mirc and icq before that. And for a short time recently, twitter. I have this 'something else' in mind. I feel that what's going to happen is the same old thing that happens. Ah. I got on facebook freshman year of college, I *think* it was fairly new back then, and there were no ads, or marketing, etc. I'm hoping that G+ avoids the marketing/corporate pages and games, and just sticks with google ads. On the other hand, Google wants money, and people expect social networks to have games and bands and businesses, so I don't expect much. 'you're in, you're not you can see, you can't'... sense?. You are in, you can/'t see, you are not, you cannot but public.
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Alex Osterwalder visits Finland · August 5th 2011 5 sites pour tirer profit de Google+ 25 Millions de profils en quelques semaines, c’est historique. Est-ce que ce succès sera pérenne? Google Plus réussira-t’il à conquérir d’autres profils que les geeks, ingénieurs et accros du web? C’est encore trop tôt pour le dire. En revanche, si vous y êtes et que vous voulez en tirer le maximum, quelques conseils et outils pour vous aider. 1) Findpeopleonplus C’est un annuaire de près de 10 millions de profils sur Google Plus. 2) Socialstatistics Il faut s’enregistrer sur ce site et y créer un compte (c’est bon avec un compte Google). 3) Google+Tweet Ou comment faire d’une pierre / deux coups. 4) Google+ Facebook Même principe que l’outil précédent, mais pour Facebook et seulement sur IE, Chrome et Firefox. Le service permet d’afficher son stream Facebook dans Google+. 5) gphangouts Google+, c’est comme pour Twitter, il y a un nouveau vocabulaire à assimiler. Pour ceux qui utilisent Chrome, il y a de nombreuses autres applications, accessibles dans le Chrome Web Store.